Ezequiel Godoy

📍 Haarlem, Netherlands | 📞 +31 687 905 067 | ✉️ contact@ezegodoy.com | 🌐 ezegodoy.com

Executive Summary

Principal Platform Engineer with 12+ years driving cloud transformation and platform excellence. Proven track record of reducing infrastructure costs by 20-30% while improving system reliability from 90% to 99%+. Currently leading platform standardization for Mercell’s unified European procurement platform supporting 50+ developers across 7 teams.

Key Impact: Led migrations saving $1.2M annually, architected systems supporting 10M+ passengers/year, and established GitOps practices that became company standards.

Key Achievements

• 💰 Cost Optimization: Reduced infrastructure costs by $100k/month at KIU through AWS optimization and migration to Kubernetes
• 📈 Reliability Engineering: Improved system availability from 90% to 99% for mission-critical airline systems processing 10M+ passengers annually
• 🚀 Platform Consolidation: Led consolidation of 3 acquired platforms into unified AWS infrastructure supporting 50+ developers at Mercell
• ⚡ Performance Optimization: Increased data processing success rate from 40% to 70%, directly impacting revenue at Traject Data
• 🏗️ Multi-Cloud Architecture: Architected failover strategy for 4M+ active banking users at Banco Galicia
• 🎯 DevOps Excellence: Established company-wide GitOps standards using ArgoCD, reducing deployment failures by 60%

Certifications

• AWS Certified Security Specialty (2024)
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional (2022)

Core Competencies

Platform Engineering & Architecture

Cloud Platforms: AWS (10+ years) - EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, Landing Zones, Multi-Account Strategy
Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, EKS/AKS, Fargate, GitOps with ArgoCD
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Ansible
Cost Optimization: FinOps practices, 20-30% reduction track record, Reserved Instances, Spot Fleet management

DevOps & Automation

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic, CloudWatch, Loki
Message Systems: EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Kafka, RabbitMQ
Security: GDPR compliance, PCI-DSS, AWS GuardDuty, Config, WAF, Security Hub

Leadership & Strategy

Technical Leadership: Teams of 5-10 engineers, architectural decision records, mentoring
Stakeholder Management: C-level presentations, technology roadmaps, multi-year strategies
Methodologies: Agile, GitOps, Platform Engineering, SRE practices

Professional Experience

Wypoon / Mercell – Principal Platform Engineer

Sep 2024 – Present | Utrecht, Netherlands (Hybrid)

Supporting Europe’s leading procurement platform following consolidation of 3 major acquisitions (eu-supply, Negometrix, Cloudia).

• Driving platform unification for 50+ developers across 7 teams as part of 4-person platform team
• Achieved 20% infrastructure cost reduction through rightsizing, Fargate adoption, and autoscaling strategies
• Leading AWS Landing Zone implementation with Terraform/Terragrunt standardization across multiple countries
• Orchestrating migration from EC2 to ECS while maintaining 99%+ availability for critical services
• Implementing reservation strategy projected to save additional 15% on annual AWS costs
• Establishing CI/CD standards with GitHub Actions for cross-border compliance (GDPR)

Tekton Labs / Traject Data – Senior DevOps Engineer

Dec 2023 – Sep 2024 | Remote (USA-based)

Modernized web scraping infrastructure processing TB-scale data from major e-commerce platforms.

• Improved data validity rate from 40% to 70%, directly increasing billable revenue by 30%
• Re-architected monolithic system to event-driven microservices using EventBridge, SQS, and Lambda
• Reduced infrastructure costs by 10% through architectural optimization and resource management
• Collaborated with 10 developers to establish service contracts and decouple system dependencies
• Implemented New Relic observability stack enabling proactive capacity planning and fault isolation
• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, reducing deployment time by 50%

KIU System Solutions – DevOps Team Lead

May 2022 – Dec 2023 | Remote (Buenos Aires)

Led platform modernization for airline PSS serving 10+ Tier 3 carriers across Americas and Europe.

• Managed team of 5 engineers and $600k monthly infrastructure budget
• Improved system availability from 90% to 99% (e-commerce) and 95% (PSS/DSS)
• Enabled onboarding of first Tier 2 airline (10-25M passengers/year)
• Reduced monthly infrastructure costs from $600k to $500k through optimization
• Migrated 40+ microservices from legacy orchestrator to Amazon EKS
• Introduced GitOps with ArgoCD, becoming company-wide standard
• Built secure AWS Landing Zone with PCI-DSS compliance tooling
• Presented monthly to C-level executives on incidents, SLAs, and strategic improvements

Accenture / Banco Galicia – Cloud Architect

Jul 2021 – May 2022 | Buenos Aires, Argentina

Architected cloud solutions for Argentina’s leading private bank serving 5M customers.

• Designed multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) architecture for mobile banking used by 4M+ active users
• Implemented failover strategy ensuring business continuity with minimal user impact
• Introduced CDK-based templates with built-in compliance controls for financial regulations
• Supported AI virtual assistant (Gala) and QR payment system initiatives
• Mentored teams in Kubernetes adoption (EKS/AKS) and cloud-native practices
• Established risk-based CI/CD workflows with automated compliance checks

Mercantil Andina – Cloud Architect

Jan 2021 – Jul 2021 | Buenos Aires, Argentina

Strengthened Azure infrastructure for Argentina’s leading insurance company.

• Enhanced system reliability for 1M+ insurance customers during cloud migration
• Implemented Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack, improving MTTR by 40%
• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible
• Established SLAs aligned with business-critical applications
• Tuned Azure WAF and implemented hybrid cloud security measures

Genbyte – Cloud Architect & Co-founder

Jan 2013 – Jan 2021 | Buenos Aires, Argentina

Built and led cloud consulting practice serving multiple sectors.

• Co-founded consultancy becoming early AWS Partner
• Led 50+ cloud transformation projects across healthcare, e-commerce, and logistics
• Architected solutions using EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, and RDS
• Established CI/CD practices and monitoring platforms for enterprise clients
• Guided businesses through digital transformation at strategic and technical levels

Education & Languages

Computer Science Studies | Universidad de Palermo (Argentina)

Languages:

• Spanish (Native)
• English (Fluent - Professional)
• Dutch (A1 - Currently Learning)